Breaking The Rules In The Arkansas State University

Communities around the world are bound by rules and laws. Merriam-Webster defines a rule as a prescribed guide for conduct or action. It then defines a law as a binding custom or practice of a community, something enforceable. Rules aid in allowing people to know what they should or should not do. Nearly all communities, groups, tribes, etc. have rules to abide by.
They can come together and make, change, or abolish rules as they see fit. A law, on the other hand, is a rule that everyone in a community, state, or nation must follow or else sanctions for breaking the law can and will be enforced. People elect officials to make laws and these leaders are the people in charge of the police. The police are the individuals that make up a group of
They inform member of a given community how to obey laws and stop the people who ignore the law and do as they please. By breaking rules and laws, an individual opens themselves up to possible consequences for their actions, a consequence being something that occurs due to something else. Rules and laws have many purposes. They help people share resources. They help people get along with one another. Most importantly, they help keep people in communities safe. This paper is being written as a sanction for breaking the rules within the Arkansas State University – Jonesboro campus. It will depict why exactly rules are in place in communities across the world. Set guidelines for communities are in place for
The difference does not stem from the feelings of the members of the society, but in the perceived potential consequences. A person who ignores a society’s informal rules may not go to prison, but he may become completely useless nevertheless because no one will have anything to do with him.
There are, in fact, possible issues with informal rules. They may risky and dangerous to break
(Pauley 1). A person who breaks a formal rule may go to jail. After serving the allotted sentence they are welcomed back into society to hopefully continue the social norms. But a person who breaks informal rules may experience less dramatic consequences that may last an entire life, not just the length of a jail sentence. Informal rules are typically unspoken so people who are not aware of them can break them without ever knowing. Once they break one, they may break another rule directly following it. Taking another quote from Kevin Pauley, this phrase could be uttered to outsiders; “Why couldn’t you see that? Why wouldn’t you just know that? It’s just
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